Western Political Science Association Conference. San Francisco (USA), March 29-31, 2018.David Szakonyi «Miami Vice: The Effect of Anti-Corruption Campaigns on Money Laundering»Ora John Reuter «Elite Defection under Autocracy: Evidence from Russia»

21st Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics. New York, June 23-25, 2017.T.Frye «Autocratic Elections and Corporate Raiding: a Natural Experiment in Russia» A.Yakovlev «Raiders, Property Rights, and Investment: Evidence from Russia's Regions»I.Marques «Public-private Partnerships Under Weak Institutions: Co-investment and the Case of Vocational Education in Russia’s Regions»D.Ivanov presented his research on «Do Institutions Cause Social Trust? Evidence from an Institutional Reform»

20th Uddevalla Symposium 2017 «Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Industrial Dynamics in Internationalized Regional Economies». Sweden, June 15-17, 2017.V.Golikova «Innovation performance of family firms in comparative perspective: the role of regional corruption in Europe and Russia»

The Second World Congress of Comparative Economics “1917 –2017: Revolution and Evolution in Economic Development”. Russia, Saint-Petesrburg. June 15-17, 2017A. Yakovlev «Prerequisites for the Formation of a New Developmental Model in Russian Region: The Case of Tatarstan»; «Russian Fast-Growing Firms (Gazelles) and North’s Development Paradigm»I. Marques «Raiders, Property Rights, and Investment: Evidence from Russia’s Regions»; «Public-Private Partnerships under Weak Institutions: Co-investment and the Case of Vocational Education in Russia’s Regions»A. Kazun «Violent Pressure on Business and Economic Development of Russian Regions», «Lawyers’ Organizations as Drivers of Social Changes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Russia»N. Ershova «Collective Action of Foreign Business in Russia: The Main Organizational Forms, Stages, and Factors of Their Evolution»M. Silvagni «Higher Literacy Skills, Better Occupation? Evidence from Russia 1897-1926»D. Ivanov «Loss of Human Capital and Development: Evidence from Russian Germans Repatriation»A. Libman «Sub-National Political Regimes and Formal Economic Regulation: Evidence from Russian Regions»M. Rochlitz «The Political Economy of Regional Investment Promotion: Experimental Evidence from Russia»

13th Workshop on family firm management research «Creativity and and Family Businesses». Spain, Bilbao, May 25-27, 2017.V. Golikova «Innovation performance of family firms in comparative perspective: the role of regional corruption in Europe and Russia»

European Public Choice Society Conference. Hungary, Budapest. April 19-22, 2017 E. Borisova, A. Govorun, D. Ivanov “Bridging or Bonding? Preferences for Redistribution and Social Capital in Russia”D. Szakonyi “Princelings and Political Rents” N. Buckley “Calculating Corruption: Political Competition and Bribery under Authoritarianism”

XVIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development(Higher School of Economics). Russia, Moscow. April 11-14, 2017 D. Ivanov, E. Borisova “Loss of human capital and development: evidence from Russian Germans repatriation”D. Ivanov “Regional distribution of fast-growing companies in Russia: Role of institutions”E. Borisova, A. Govorun, D. Ivanov “Bridging or Bonding? Preferences for Redistribution and Social Capital in Russia”A. Kazun “Devil’s advocate for dishonest law enforcer: who defends law enforcers in Russian courts?”

Workshop «Political elites and political rents under electoral authoritarianism: evidence from Russia and beyond». UK, Oxford. April 3, 2017N. Buckley "Calculating Corruption: Political Competition and Bribery under Authoritarianism"

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Conference 2017. UK, Cambridge, March 31-April 2, 2017

A. Yakovlev, I. Levina, G.Kisunko (World Bank), I. Marques “Uncertainty as a Factor in Investment Decisions: The Case of Russia’s Regions”A. Yakovlev “How to Expand the Rule of Law in an Imperfect Institutional Environment? Some Implications from Russia's «LimitedAccess Order”N. Buckley “Calculating Corruption: Political Competition and Bribery under Authoritarianism”M. Rochlitz “Violent Pressure on Business in Russia: How It Affects Firm Entry and the Investment Climate, and why the Kremlin Cannot Stop It”D. Szakonyi “Princelings and Political Rents”

International Conference “Eastern Europe’s New Conservatives: Varieties and Explanations from Poland to Russia”. Germany, Berlin,February 9-10, 2017A. Yakovlev “When and why ordinary people and elites in Russia started to turn to non-liberal thinking?”

2016 годASEEES Annual Conference. D. Szakonyi “The Determinants of Businessperson Political Candidacy”I. Marques “Public-Private Partnerships and Political Connections”A. Yakovlev, A. Kazun “How to Expand the Rule of Law in an Imperfect Institutional Environment? Some Implications from Russia's ‘Limited Access Order’”M. Rochlitz “The role and place of the siloviki in Russia's changing political order”N. Buckley “Authoritarian Regimes and Petty Corruption: The Experience of Russian Citizens”T. Frye, E. Borisova “Elections, Protest and Trust in Government: A Natural Experiment from Russia”

European Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Belgium, Brussels. June 23-25, 2016. N. Buckley “Improving Measurement of Corruption: Multilevel Regression and Poststratification in New Contexts and New Populations“

Seminar at the School of Advanced International and Area Studies of East China Normal University. China, Shanghai. May 9, 2016.M. Rochlitz “State-Busniess Relations in Russia and China: A Comparative Analysis”

XVII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. Russia, Moscow. April 19-22, 2016.E. Borisova, A. Kulkova “Cultural Heterogeneity and Trust: Evidence from Naming Patterns in Russia”D. Sumkin, T. Grigoriadis, A. Yakovlev “Monitoring Transition: Public Procurement & Imperfect Institutions”A. Kazun, A. Yakovlev “The role of the organizations of lawyers in the development of the community of advocates in Russia”A. Kazun, A. Kazun “Network analysis of the WTO dispute: asymmetry in opportunities of developing and developed countries and Russia's place in the "trade club"

Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society. Germany, Freiburg. March 30 to April 2, 2016.E. Borisova, T. Frye “Elections, Protest and Trust in Government: A Natural Experiment from Russia” D. Ivanov “Do Institutions Cause Social Trust? Evidence from an Institutional Reform”